Resource Sheets

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Action and Awareness Projects

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What's being done? How can you help?

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In any area — a pond, meadow, or your backyard — water, soil, air and living things form an ecosystem. Your ecosystem includes the sunshine, air, water, land, food, house and friends you depend on to keep you healthy and happy.

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Assign this resource sheet to students as homework or as a classroom reading activity. This backgrounder outlines key terms and concepts that are fleshed out later on.

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Your ecosystem includes the land, air, water, sunshine, food, home, schoolmates, friends, and family you need to grow up healthy and happy.

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Creating a mini-wetland in your schoolyard is surprisingly simple. It may be your key to attracting a host of wet and wild creatures.

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It's important to arrange your plantings so that they provide maximum benefits for wildlife.

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A festival or celebration is simply a collection of activities, displays, and presentations with a common theme.

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Try this virtual scavenger hunt. Answer all the questions by searching the Oceans Day partners' Web sites listed in parentheses after each question.

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You may attract more than butterflies to your garden — other pollinators, such as bees, may also appreciate your efforts.

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It is easy to overlook the services provided by pollinators, living and non-living. Yet, without pollination, many plants could not reproduce.

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One way to conserve our aquatic treasures is to participate in a biodiversity field study along a migratory route.

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Biodiversity is a simple way of saying biological diversity — but don't worry, we can make it even easier than that!

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We've scarcely begun to understand the diversity hidden in the ocean and the interrelationships among its innumerable parts.

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Every time you improve habitat, you are helping to build critical life-support systems for a host of wild creatures.

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Team building is important. More can be accomplished by a group than by individuals, and members feel that they are making a real contribution. Working with a small team, or even with just a buddy, will instill a sense of pride in your project and, even more importantly, in your community.

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Canada's northern environment, wildlife and people are facing major changes. Global climate change, caused mainly by our urbanized activities in the south, is predicted to have its greatest impact in this region.

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What is a community? It’s a collection of living things, joined by interrelationships and interdependencies.

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Every single community in Canada is linked to the sea through the never-ending flow of water in streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, and lakes.

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Environmental problems not only cross national boundaries, but also the boundaries between federal and provincial jurisdictions.